Bracewell & Giuliani's Holmstead defends the president's climate change initiatives. (OnPoint, 12/04/2006)
Kilpatrick Stockton attorney Mark Levy discusses the potential effect of the NSR case on U.S. EPA regulations in the future. (OnPoint, 10/31/2006)
Industry attorney Scott Segal and the Environmental Integrity Project's Eric Schaeffer debate the Duke Energy NSR case. (OnPoint, 05/23/2006)
NSR Enforcement Chart (Updated April 3, 2007)
Environmental Defense's successful Supreme Court petition
4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' opinion in U.S. v. Duke
New York v. EPA I "Flexible NSR Permitting Options"
New York v. EPA II "Equipment Replacement Rule"
TVA v. EPA decision from the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
U.S. EPA's NSR final and proposed recommendations
U.S. EPA's 33-page report to President Bush on NSR's energy and environmental impacts
This New Source Review report examines the Bush administration's regulatory revisions to the Clean Air Act program, the on-going legal battle over EPA enforcement and links to key documents.
New Jersey sued U.S. EPA yesterday claiming that new federal monitoring requirements for coal-fired utilities would allow them to avoid reporting increases in air emissions.
At issue is an EPA rule issued Dec. 17, 2007, that the agency says clarifies the Clean Air Act's New Source Review program's "reasonable possibility" recordkeeping and reporting standard.
The nation's largest coal-burning utility, American Electric Power, will pay a $15 million civil penalty and spend $4.6 billion to improve pollution controls at 16 power plants in the Midwest and mid-Atlantic as part of a settlement resolving government charges in 1999 that it violated the Clean Air Act.
ATLANTA -- A federal appeals court rejected environmentalists' claims yesterday that Tennessee Valley Authority emissions from a 25-year-old upgrade to a coal-fired power plant in Alabama has repeatedly violated the Clean Air Act.
A federal judge has dismissed some allegations against Cinergy Corp. in long-standing air pollution enforcement litigation, but the case still remains on track for trial next May.
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